A Comparison of Osteopathic Spinal Manipulation with Standard Care for Patients with Low Back Pain

4 November 1999

journal article
clinical trial
Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine

Vol. 341 (19) , 1426-1431
https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199911043411903

Abstract

The effect of osteopathic manual therapy (i.e., spinal manipulation) in patients with chronic and subchronic back pain is largely unknown, and its use in such patients is controversial. Nevertheless, manual therapy is a frequently used method of treatment in this group of patients.

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